Combined hat and clothes hook



(No Model.)

Patnted Deer 18, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM WV. SHOE, OF NETHER PROVIDENCE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED HAT AND CLOTHES HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,792, dated December 18, 1888. Application filed April 26,1888. Serial No. 271,893. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ILLIAM IV. SHOE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nether Providence, in the county of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hat-Holders and Clothes- Hooks, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a hat holder which is adapted to support a hat horizontally in a convenient and reliable manner.

It also consists in combining with the above a clothes-hook, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a hat-holder and clothes-hook embodying my invention. 2 represents a front view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a hat-holder formed of the front arms, a a, and rear arms, I). The front arms rise from the securing or attaching plate 0 and flare upwardly. The rear arms also rise from said plate 0 in flaring direction and have their upward portions curved forwardly, downwardly, and laterally, forming horns (Z, the latter being below the top of the arms a.

The operation is as follows: The crown of the hat to be held is first placed over the arms a and the hat then tilted upwardly and pushed rearward, whereby the brim passes under the horns (l. The hat is now lowered on the arms a as a fulcrum, whereby the brim abuts upwardly against the horns d, and when the hat is let go it is reliably sustained or held in horizontal position. By tilting the hat in front and slightly lifting the same the brim is disengaged from the horns d, and the hat may then be raised clear of both arms a 1). Depending from the plate 0 are hooks B in the present case two in number-the same being adapted to support clothes, &c., below the hat-holder.

The holder and clothes-hook, with the securing-plate, are made either of one piece of sheet metal or cast malleable metal, the arms being properly bent into shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The hat-holder provided with the front arms, a, and the rear arms, I), the latter having horns d, and a securing-plate, the parts being combined substantially as described.

2. The hat-holder and clothes-hook, consisting of the rear arms, I), with horns d, the securing-plate c, and the hooks B, arranged and combined substantially as described.

WM. WV. SHOE.

\Vitn esses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

